I'm not so sure they did. I think OLPC did a fine job of killing themselves.. I _TRIED_ to get one when I first heard about it. I thought it would be neet to have one and figured they would be readily available to anyone that wanted one, after all, mass production was the key..
This was before they had even produced one. So I waited.. Then they came up with the G1G1 idea. I didn't mind having to pay for 2. At $100 a pop, its not such a bad thing.
Then the price was revised. Not $100 each, $300 for the pair.. So that was AU$600+ for me.. Getting a little high for a novelty.. But I thought at least i'll be giving one to some needy kids.. Then I was told I could get one because i was outside the US.. WTF?!
Then they stuck XP on it and I gave up.. By then the eeepc had come out locally and the 10" one was only a few months off.. So now I have a much better machine for around AU$100 less than OLPC wanted to charge me.. Sure, some snotty nosed little brat in some far off land cant sell the one he missed out on for smack.. And I didn't have to jump through any stupid hoops.
As much as I love Yahtzee I don't think he can review MMOs (any MMO, not just EvE). Most MMOs require you to play for more than 30 seconds to get the idea of whats going on. EvE gives you 15 days to work it out. I've been playing for over a year and I still haven't worked it out.. Its complex. Very complex.
Not joining a player corp in eve is like buying a car without any wheels. I'm sure it'll look nice and not get the paint scratched, but its pretty useless. Player corps in eve are about the only way to get anything even remotely meaningful done and not get blown up a bajillion times while doing it.
1) The second you said 'open source' in a discussion about microsoft I switched off. Never gonna happen. The business would go under before letting this happen. Although I pretty much agree with everything else. 5 years ago I used to see hundres of web pages that worked in IE but not the more standards complient Firefox, now I'm seeing it swing the other way.
2) (The first one). Being in the position where im about to do a server rollout using hyper-v, ive done quite a bit of research on it. It doesnt look to bad, except it needs some better tools badly, and needs a light footprint like VMware (ie, doesnt require you to install windows first). A nice lean OS to run it it would also be good..
2) (The second one). While I agree that xbox live will become MS's new cash cow, I also believe that downloaded and/or streaming movies is still a long way off. There is still to large a market that doesnt have or cant get a fast enough net connection to make it worth it. This will change, but not for a long time. (read 20+ years)
3) There are other good IDEs out there, but yes, Visual Studio will stay around for a long time yet.
4) Microsoft R&D will continue to do what Microsoft R&D does, buy other companies that have developed something really cool and combine that technology with other things they have bought that were really cool. This will do what it always has, ie, produse some really bad ideas and some really good ones. Hopefully for MS the really good ones turn out to be money makers.
It works because no one bothers to try it. I had a 1984 Mitsubishi Colt and the locks on the doors didn't work at all. I couldn't lock either the driver or passenger side doors (but fortunately the ignition lock did work). So with both doors unlocked for the whole 8 years I owned the car I got it broken in to twice. On both occasions it was a brick through the passenger side window. Simply trying the door would have opened it..
Please can you come and explain that logic to my boss.. Ans can you also include the following.
Need large amount of computing power than you never need to move, BUY A DESKTOP.
All our work desktops are slowly being replaced with laptops. No one ever moves them. They stay setup, open, on people desks, over the weekend.. I'm surprised that the cleaners haven't stolen a few buy now.
I have to say, out of all the games I have played F.E.A.R. was by far the scariest. There was a part where you are going down a ladder. As you step on the ladder your view swings around so you are facing the right direction, and Alma is standing where you were seconds ago. I physically jumped back in my chair (and let go of the keyboard and mouse). I loved it.
Here's a clue: Linux isn't Windows. It's never going to be Windows. If you don't want to learn something new, stick with Windows and stop whining.
I believe that was, in fact, the point. 99.9% of people that dont use linux or say linux is bad do so because they cant be bothered poring hundreds of hours in to learning another OS. That's fine, and I understand that, but that's also why windows eee's outsell lunix ones, and why the return rate for the linux ones is that much higher.
Its not window, its not what people are used it, it gets returned.
Printer running out of ink? Here's the cartridge you need and here's a link to an online shop where you can buy it! Great! For the home user..
The last thing I need is 400 employees trying to purchase their own cartridges when we already have a dozen in stock. The last thing I need is them being told they must upgrade to the new version of media player so they can get their free music download when its supposed to be a disabled application. The last thing I need is them being able to install messenger without it even telling them its installing some software let alone prompting for a password (ANY password).. (Vista Business already does this).
User: Oh, I've just accidentally overwritten that hyper important document we had laying around in some random directory. Me: Dont worry, its on backup tape. I'll get the old copy for you. *20 mins of finding the right tape and restoring it* User: That's not the one. We made a whole bunch of changes to it this morning and they aren't there anymore. Me: *hair turns gray and falls out*
Most people in IT seem to be set on holding out as long as is possible.
And I'll tell you why.
In about 6 months we will be re-rolling our entire IT infrastructure. Everything. Server, desktops, laptops, switches, routers and were even going to be replacing our rack (the actual physical rack). Were not a huge organization, but we've budgeted 2 million AU$ for it.
I was talking with 2 users yesterday about our plans (im rather excited about it) and I said to them we were going to be running server 2008 and vista on the desktops. I was greeted with "Oh god no, please don't do that, can we have XP instead.". I didn't prompt them, I haven't ever spouted off that I hate vista (I do, but im not the one making the decision in this, so im learning to deal with it), they said it all on their own.
IT people dont want it because its a LOT of work, costs a fortune and the end users don't want it anyway!
I've been reading most of the comments and a lot of people are blaming the carriers for locking the phones down. I'm not an American and Australian carriers are forced to not lock the phones down quite so much, so I get to see what features people use when they actually CAN use them. Lets take my family as an example.
Me - I use almost of all of the features of my phone except the camera and MP3 player. I have a nice little 7MP happy snap digital camera that is actually smaller than my phone permanently in my backpack. I do however use the browser from time to time. I use the wifi and bluetooth (mostly to get my laptop online). I use its email sync.. Lets just say I use a lot of features and im happy with it.
Brother - My brother uses the phone to make calls and SMS only. Hes not to technical, but can work his way around the interface. I actual got an MMS message from him once to show off his new bike, so he can USE the features, he just doesn't.
Wife - She uses the phone to make calls and SMS as well. Pretty much the same usage pattern as my brother.
Father - My dad had to get the best phone he could. This is the 2nd phone in a row where I have gotten a call from him after 2 weeks complaining that the screen is too small and he cant read it and can I make the text bigger (which I cant). As a result he doesn't use ANY of the features and even has trouble making calls on the phone.
Mother - My mums phone is pretty basic because shes the least technical person I know. She cant even figure out the address book in the phone, but she gets by.
So there we go.. I would say my phone usage is abnormal based on that quick survey, and even I don't use the camera.
In the real world (ie, the rest of the world) it counts.. Typically 'noise' is usually less than 5-10MB a month (so on a 5GB plan, less than 0.2%). Auto updates on almost all programs can be turned off because as above, the rest of the world already has usage limits..
Internet access providers do not pay per gigabyte transferred. Neither do hosting providers, not in Europe, not elsewhere. Actually, thats not strictly true.. I have worked for a few ISP's in Australia, and for ADSL there are 2 costs involved.
Peering/interstate/international bandwidth is charged to an ISP in Mbps, so in this case your right, they don't pay for an actual meg of data but they do pay for how much they want transported at one time. ADSL tail (though Telstra, the only people that can wholesale ADSL in the country) IS charged per MB of data, but at a very small amount.
ISPs in Australia charge per MB because they cant possibly hope to cover all their user bandwidth and NOT charge the end customer thousands of dollars a month. Limiting a customer to say 20-40GB a month means they wont suddenly decide to download the interwebs and hog a piece of the ISPs total bandwidth.
Fairly sure he meant CD-R instead of DVD-R (rather than CD-RW instead of HDD).. I still don't get it though as the drive price is almost the same these days (if you can still find any CD-R only drives anymore) and the media is almost the same price too (at least 2 shops around here have CD-Rs at more than DVD-Rs.. )
I think this just proves that price/performance is actually still king, but obviously WHAT has the best price/performance changes, and some times rapidly..
Wait just a second here... Standards are good unless they mean you get less? Kilo is 1000 not 1024.. Yes the computing industry has been using it as 1024 since the beginning of time, but thats incorrect and has always been incorrect. Kilo, Mega, Giga, Terra etc are all base 10, they always have been and always will be.
Do I get so sue because my Linux distro that I just hacked up uses K=10000 instead of K=1000 so all the drives are an order of magnitude smaller on my OS..
There are 2 problems. Firstly there is the problem is safty and secondly the problem of fuel consumption (which is high, which means it costs passengers more).
From wikipedia "It has been suggested that Concorde was not withdrawn for the reasons usually given, but that during the grounding of Concorde it became apparent to the airlines that they could actually make more revenue carrying their first class passengers subsonically."
The best way to look at this problem is to take it to the extreme, and it also makes a lot more sense that way..
Say you have a million doors and have to pick one.. Chances of picking the car are 1 in a million.. Now all but your door and one other are opened reveling goats.. You know one of the remaining doors has the car and one has a goat.. You can pretty much guarantee you didn't pick the car, so swapping is the only option.
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I'm not so sure they did. I think OLPC did a fine job of killing themselves.. I _TRIED_ to get one when I first heard about it. I thought it would be neet to have one and figured they would be readily available to anyone that wanted one, after all, mass production was the key..
This was before they had even produced one. So I waited.. Then they came up with the G1G1 idea. I didn't mind having to pay for 2. At $100 a pop, its not such a bad thing.
Then the price was revised. Not $100 each, $300 for the pair.. So that was AU$600+ for me.. Getting a little high for a novelty.. But I thought at least i'll be giving one to some needy kids.. Then I was told I could get one because i was outside the US.. WTF?!
Then they stuck XP on it and I gave up.. By then the eeepc had come out locally and the 10" one was only a few months off.. So now I have a much better machine for around AU$100 less than OLPC wanted to charge me.. Sure, some snotty nosed little brat in some far off land cant sell the one he missed out on for smack.. And I didn't have to jump through any stupid hoops.
As much as I love Yahtzee I don't think he can review MMOs (any MMO, not just EvE). Most MMOs require you to play for more than 30 seconds to get the idea of whats going on. EvE gives you 15 days to work it out. I've been playing for over a year and I still haven't worked it out.. Its complex. Very complex.
Not joining a player corp in eve is like buying a car without any wheels. I'm sure it'll look nice and not get the paint scratched, but its pretty useless. Player corps in eve are about the only way to get anything even remotely meaningful done and not get blown up a bajillion times while doing it.
LIES!!! (I just love saying that)
1) The second you said 'open source' in a discussion about microsoft I switched off. Never gonna happen. The business would go under before letting this happen. Although I pretty much agree with everything else. 5 years ago I used to see hundres of web pages that worked in IE but not the more standards complient Firefox, now I'm seeing it swing the other way.
2) (The first one). Being in the position where im about to do a server rollout using hyper-v, ive done quite a bit of research on it. It doesnt look to bad, except it needs some better tools badly, and needs a light footprint like VMware (ie, doesnt require you to install windows first). A nice lean OS to run it it would also be good..
2) (The second one). While I agree that xbox live will become MS's new cash cow, I also believe that downloaded and/or streaming movies is still a long way off. There is still to large a market that doesnt have or cant get a fast enough net connection to make it worth it. This will change, but not for a long time. (read 20+ years)
3) There are other good IDEs out there, but yes, Visual Studio will stay around for a long time yet.
4) Microsoft R&D will continue to do what Microsoft R&D does, buy other companies that have developed something really cool and combine that technology with other things they have bought that were really cool. This will do what it always has, ie, produse some really bad ideas and some really good ones. Hopefully for MS the really good ones turn out to be money makers.
It works because no one bothers to try it. I had a 1984 Mitsubishi Colt and the locks on the doors didn't work at all. I couldn't lock either the driver or passenger side doors (but fortunately the ignition lock did work). So with both doors unlocked for the whole 8 years I owned the car I got it broken in to twice. On both occasions it was a brick through the passenger side window. Simply trying the door would have opened it..
I believe its just a big URL filter, so it doesn't need to even know about IP addresses.. Although its a big barrel of fail already...
Please can you come and explain that logic to my boss.. Ans can you also include the following.
Need large amount of computing power than you never need to move, BUY A DESKTOP.
All our work desktops are slowly being replaced with laptops. No one ever moves them. They stay setup, open, on people desks, over the weekend.. I'm surprised that the cleaners haven't stolen a few buy now.
I have to say, out of all the games I have played F.E.A.R. was by far the scariest. There was a part where you are going down a ladder. As you step on the ladder your view swings around so you are facing the right direction, and Alma is standing where you were seconds ago. I physically jumped back in my chair (and let go of the keyboard and mouse). I loved it.
So glad I read the comments first. I was just about to post the very same thing! The guy was on to something you know..
Here's a clue: Linux isn't Windows. It's never going to be Windows. If you don't want to learn something new, stick with Windows and stop whining.
I believe that was, in fact, the point. 99.9% of people that dont use linux or say linux is bad do so because they cant be bothered poring hundreds of hours in to learning another OS. That's fine, and I understand that, but that's also why windows eee's outsell lunix ones, and why the return rate for the linux ones is that much higher.
Its not window, its not what people are used it, it gets returned.
Printer running out of ink? Here's the cartridge you need and here's a link to an online shop where you can buy it! Great! For the home user..
The last thing I need is 400 employees trying to purchase their own cartridges when we already have a dozen in stock. The last thing I need is them being told they must upgrade to the new version of media player so they can get their free music download when its supposed to be a disabled application. The last thing I need is them being able to install messenger without it even telling them its installing some software let alone prompting for a password (ANY password).. (Vista Business already does this).
Oh god yes.. +1 for this.
User: Oh, I've just accidentally overwritten that hyper important document we had laying around in some random directory.
Me: Dont worry, its on backup tape. I'll get the old copy for you.
*20 mins of finding the right tape and restoring it*
User: That's not the one. We made a whole bunch of changes to it this morning and they aren't there anymore.
Me: *hair turns gray and falls out*
If the shit hasn't already actually hit the fan, its now so close that its stench is getting blown around for all..
Most people in IT seem to be set on holding out as long as is possible.
And I'll tell you why.
In about 6 months we will be re-rolling our entire IT infrastructure. Everything. Server, desktops, laptops, switches, routers and were even going to be replacing our rack (the actual physical rack). Were not a huge organization, but we've budgeted 2 million AU$ for it.
I was talking with 2 users yesterday about our plans (im rather excited about it) and I said to them we were going to be running server 2008 and vista on the desktops. I was greeted with "Oh god no, please don't do that, can we have XP instead.". I didn't prompt them, I haven't ever spouted off that I hate vista (I do, but im not the one making the decision in this, so im learning to deal with it), they said it all on their own.
IT people dont want it because its a LOT of work, costs a fortune and the end users don't want it anyway!
Changes the whole concept of farming......
I've been reading most of the comments and a lot of people are blaming the carriers for locking the phones down. I'm not an American and Australian carriers are forced to not lock the phones down quite so much, so I get to see what features people use when they actually CAN use them. Lets take my family as an example.
Me - I use almost of all of the features of my phone except the camera and MP3 player. I have a nice little 7MP happy snap digital camera that is actually smaller than my phone permanently in my backpack. I do however use the browser from time to time. I use the wifi and bluetooth (mostly to get my laptop online). I use its email sync.. Lets just say I use a lot of features and im happy with it.
Brother - My brother uses the phone to make calls and SMS only. Hes not to technical, but can work his way around the interface. I actual got an MMS message from him once to show off his new bike, so he can USE the features, he just doesn't.
Wife - She uses the phone to make calls and SMS as well. Pretty much the same usage pattern as my brother.
Father - My dad had to get the best phone he could. This is the 2nd phone in a row where I have gotten a call from him after 2 weeks complaining that the screen is too small and he cant read it and can I make the text bigger (which I cant). As a result he doesn't use ANY of the features and even has trouble making calls on the phone.
Mother - My mums phone is pretty basic because shes the least technical person I know. She cant even figure out the address book in the phone, but she gets by.
So there we go.. I would say my phone usage is abnormal based on that quick survey, and even I don't use the camera.
Conference is set for July 18-20, 2007, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.
So this was last year then?
In the real world (ie, the rest of the world) it counts.. Typically 'noise' is usually less than 5-10MB a month (so on a 5GB plan, less than 0.2%). Auto updates on almost all programs can be turned off because as above, the rest of the world already has usage limits..
Cry me a river?
Peering/interstate/international bandwidth is charged to an ISP in Mbps, so in this case your right, they don't pay for an actual meg of data but they do pay for how much they want transported at one time. ADSL tail (though Telstra, the only people that can wholesale ADSL in the country) IS charged per MB of data, but at a very small amount.
ISPs in Australia charge per MB because they cant possibly hope to cover all their user bandwidth and NOT charge the end customer thousands of dollars a month. Limiting a customer to say 20-40GB a month means they wont suddenly decide to download the interwebs and hog a piece of the ISPs total bandwidth.
So you would be all for this metering then? So you know exactly what your paying for before you use it?
Fairly sure he meant CD-R instead of DVD-R (rather than CD-RW instead of HDD).. I still don't get it though as the drive price is almost the same these days (if you can still find any CD-R only drives anymore) and the media is almost the same price too (at least 2 shops around here have CD-Rs at more than DVD-Rs.. )
I think this just proves that price/performance is actually still king, but obviously WHAT has the best price/performance changes, and some times rapidly..
Wait just a second here... Standards are good unless they mean you get less? Kilo is 1000 not 1024.. Yes the computing industry has been using it as 1024 since the beginning of time, but thats incorrect and has always been incorrect. Kilo, Mega, Giga, Terra etc are all base 10, they always have been and always will be.
Do I get so sue because my Linux distro that I just hacked up uses K=10000 instead of K=1000 so all the drives are an order of magnitude smaller on my OS..
There are 2 problems. Firstly there is the problem is safty and secondly the problem of fuel consumption (which is high, which means it costs passengers more).
From wikipedia "It has been suggested that Concorde was not withdrawn for the reasons usually given, but that during the grounding of Concorde it became apparent to the airlines that they could actually make more revenue carrying their first class passengers subsonically."
The best way to look at this problem is to take it to the extreme, and it also makes a lot more sense that way..
Say you have a million doors and have to pick one.. Chances of picking the car are 1 in a million.. Now all but your door and one other are opened reveling goats.. You know one of the remaining doors has the car and one has a goat.. You can pretty much guarantee you didn't pick the car, so swapping is the only option.
You my friend need one of these
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